Jörg Breu the Elder (c. 1475–1537), of
Augsburg
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, was a painter of the German
Danube school. He was the son of a weaver.
He journeyed to Austria and created several multi-panel altarpieces there in 1500–02, such as the
Melk Abbey
Melk Abbey () is a Benedictine abbey above the town of Melk, Lower Austria, on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Danube river, adjoining the Wachau valley. The abbey contains the tomb of Saint Coloman of Stockerau and the remains of several member ...
altar (1502). He returned to Augsburg in 1502, where he became a master. He travelled to Italy twice, in ca. 1508 and in 1514/15.
After his death in 1537, his son,
Jörg Breu the Younger continued to lead his Augsburg workshop until his own death 10 years later.
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Jörg Breu the Elder at the
J. Paul Getty Museum
1470s births
1537 deaths
15th-century German painters
German male painters
16th-century German painters
German Renaissance painters
Artists from Augsburg
Painters from Bavaria
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